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BEACH CLUB GIRL

By MABEL MCELLIOTT

She stretched out on the hot, white sand and lay there in that blissful state of suspension which la half-

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was a Big, wide apartment, shabby thought for a minute, she was really HOOTS RAEBURN. 18 and pretty, belongs and comfortable.

going to be sick, With plunging 10 the younger art at Larebneck, fashionable. For the thousandth time Boots cart, she fought off the feeling. Any New York suburb, The Raeburns have had thought enviously of the rooms of the alute now, any, minute she might LIVERPOOL SERVICE financial reverses and Boots Iries not to be other girls. Isabel, with her pegged get up and crawl' away, like Jealous of her wealthier felenda

SYLVIA RIVERA, richest sale! In Lown maple and candlewick spread and the strickon thing, some mortally wound- is giving a party At the Yacht Club and big satin puff, and quilted. And ed creature. Boots a heart-Bruken because she la noi in Sylvin Rivers vileit. She accepfa fast-minute invitation to room had been "done" by a famous could be so cruell It wasn't her whose sitting Why, she, had never known anyone a dinner to be given at the club the same. night as Sylvia's party by MRS. WATERMAN, decorator from the city, all in pastein fault that their house was shabby, with modernistic furniture: No, it that they had to plan and contrive one of Larchneck's socini uzbilera,

Bored and lonely, llouts calls on young wasn't fair. Life itself was not for everything. She hadn't realised MRS. HART, a neighbour, and meets DENTS falt. FENWAY," Mr. Mars' coul..

that anyone ever inlked so about her: She ran water into the tub in the what venom there had been in Patty' big, staring white bathroom. She Jight, careless voice, what unabashed scrubbed her teeth meticulously, and glee! But then Patty was Sylvia's stored discontentedly at her unflawed friend and sycophant. And Spivia "I must be running along." Boots skin in the mirror. What and was was definitely her enemy and always told-young Mrs. Hart, ratlier uncom-it, she demanded passionately of her been alnce that first day of school. fortably. She had been an idiot, she self, what earthly good was it to be four years ago, when Boots' theme had reminded herself, to come butting in pretty and graceful and well behaved? won the first-term prize and Sylvia's here. Lola would think. her a fool I got you precisely nothing, and this cool, utterly superior young Old Birs. Waterman had undoubtedly

had been shelved. with his foreign air of dandified asked her, nt. the last minute, to " elegance, rather bothered her.

in." Mrs. Waterman's table would be megance,

fall of stodgy old people and across the room, accompanied by shrieks of laughter, would be Sylvia's group. tirely." Jardy among the rest..

man,

CHAPTER 11

"Nonsense, my dear." Lols seized her art and made her sit down again,

ful embarrassments and inhibitions

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"Denis is staying with us-oh, you didn't know, you bad child, you haven't | been to see me in weeks. Boots," she

She flung back her golden mane raised herself from the sand. There But her palms were wet as she sald affectionately and rather gushing- like a wild, young, resentful mare. were only a few people on the beach

"was just graduated from high

No good thinking of all this and circling the pool now. Somehow school aome weeks ago with honours, now. She would go, wear her plaid Boots managed to walk to her cubicle. And are we proud of

of her!"

organdic, her old slippers. de She thought even stupid Dintsy Boots flushed, feeling more than the best she could.

Adrian must see that something had ever a fool. Why must Loin.cm- She was asleep when the parents happened to her, as he handed her the phasize the fact that she was Just came in,. 10 minutes later, one arm key. But Dintsy only stared owlish- out of school? She wanted to appear Rung across her face, sleeping they and said it sure was hot. a woman of the world, wanted to untroubled sleep of childhood. ...

* escape from the tight shell of youth-

She struggled into her few brief Another bright, hot, breathless day garments. The striped which cramped her,

dawned. Boots woke to a feeling of dress had seemed pretty and fresh this seersucker The young man smiled coolly (she gaiety and hopefulness. Anything morning. Now the hateful cheap. it was sure to be ness of it sickened her. A 60-cent thought) at this. She had sat down might happen again, at the insistence of her bestessa splendid party.

what an adiotremnant.. Mrs. Hart was lounging gracefully in she had been to grouch about things self, feeling happy and elever to be she had made it her- a deep chale and the young man had yesterday. Everything went morgnble to contrive

this way. Now cased his tall self into another. smoothly on this hot morning. At everything was blackened and spoliad. "Really?" he said idly. Boula 11 Mr. Raeburn, bound for the stores, All she asked was to be able to get could have killed him for it. And dropped Boots at the clubhouse gate. away, to get out of it all to some new "really!" he said again.

Shouts and splashings were heard place where clothes and money didn't "Denis," Interpolated Lois Hart, above the sound of a played piano. matter. Maybe, she, could be a facing the girl, "I just back from Boots sprinted lightly up the sairs. settlement worker

anything. England. On his way to California. It was deliciour to be alive, young, She came blinking into the dark- He said Lois Impressively, "writes happy to-day, Delicious to alip into ness of the awninged porch some nto. Oh!" Boots forgot momentarily her her still-damp shabby suit, ran a ments later, a slim girl with dark distrust of the stranger, her uneasithe waves damply down before don-hair framing her face in a classic cap comb through her fair hair, pressingyes burning in a white face, her glit "Do you, rally?" The young man waved his achieve. lng her cap. Sylvin Rivers and her of wet ringlets.

The young man. monte aside airily. He was very good open snuba-were-forgotten. It was idling with the rolls at the player looking, Boots thought, if you admired (nough to-day to have the great, plane turned a frank sture of admira- that rather supareilibus type. He had sunny world to play in and the blue, tion up to her. long, narrow, gentian blue eyes, put Sound and the narrow pool with its

"Hello," he said amiabiy. in with a smutty uger. Ils eye-springboard and diving stand.

Boots returned hla salutation life- lashes were ridculously. long. They It was too early for "the crowd."lessly. Sho remembered hin Inscinated one. His black hair fitted although the girl saw one or two Russ Lund, the now awimming in- now. him like a silken cap→→→

familiar faces and waved gally to a tiructor. Isabel-or aoniehodyad Just the same, she didn't like him. few of the high school set who already languidly dismissed Russ as a "big She reponted him. Maybe it was seemed "just kids" to her. Nothing roughneck. He was partly because to-night she wan feel could bother hor, nothing upset her, squarely built young man of 20 or strong, ing loat and hurt and out of things: she told herself gaily. To-day was 20 and therefore, to Boots, one of the at any rate, after a few minutes of wonderful. There was a special feel- eldsturs. He had a thick, unruly this wandering, desultory conversation Ing in the air of hope and promise. crest of stiff brown hair, magnificent she said she must go. She hadn't The dance to-night would be wonder-shoulders and a rather engaging left

a note for the parents. They ful, too. What matters if she were smile, Boots could not remember rould be at home any minute--they to be among the oldsters? Hardy actually having spoken to him before, would wonder.

would see her. He might even single rithough she had known, of course, Lois, who know how the enaualer out.

for a number of weeks who he was. comings and goings of Larchneck's

She dived and swam in solitary He simply did not "helang," younger set were managed, rather happiness. Afterward sho stretched. opened her uyus at this, but she did uut on the hot whiter sand and lay not protest. Denis would walk down there in that blissful state of suspen- with Boots, she said.

sion which is half waking and half "No, oh no! I just slip through sleep, thinking her own thoughts. the hedge." Boots Raeburn, noted in: She must have actually fallen Larchneck for her "smooth line," her sleep, although she hadn't intended ense and poise, was actually stammer to do so, because the sun was blazing and misery. What did it matter what Ing and flushing."

down in the intense heat of midday he asked her Somehow she managed to get away. when she heard her namo,

Rusa Lund was at her side. "I'm Her checks were very hot. He might She came out of a dim, foggy driving. Can I drop you?" have insisted on accompanying her,

Another day she would have re he thought resentfully. He might,

fused, politely and definitely. To- have

alay she shrugged her shoulders and stepped into his little car.

dream, unstirring.

"My dear, we had a good tough out of it. Mrs. Waterman called Mother The house was still dark and silent and said who could she get at the when she let horself into it. She last minute. Mother said, of course switched on a lamp in the sitting room all the crowd was spoken for. Then and went upstairs to her room. It Mrs. W. brooded for a bit and said she'd try the Raeburn girl. She didn't think she had much fun and they were such fine people-all that rot. And, my dear, if she isn't going!"

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Boots lay still as a statue, her heart hammering, hammering in her breast. She felt a little sick. She did not stir.

There was a general burst of {2aughter and the gay, inconsequcat

voice want on. Patty's voice,

"It will be a riot. I can just sco Sylvia's face. when she ses her with the graybeard"

"Well I think it's a shame., I think Boots is pretty swell,"ani Isabel loyally. "Just because they've lost all their money and she can't keep up with the crowd

If she hadn't been so desperately sick, if her head hadn't been whirl Ing and her heart pounding like a wild thing Boots would have bleased her for this. Instead she lay there, transfixed,, unable to move hand or foot,

"Oh, can all that stuff," she heard a boy's voice, unrecognized, say d Runtedly. You women

Then the group drifted away. Big-wished that aho miglio Only that. To be engulfed in some blessed, all-enveloping tide. To pana out of life painlessly, definitely, ones and for all TERAS

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Today she returned afa greeting apathetically. Nothing mattered.

"Going over town?

She nodded, already moving across the big, bare room, scented with dust, ils floor scarred by young dancing feet. She was in a very daze of pain

(To Be Continued.)

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